About the Speaker Jingchun Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder. She is also the Invertebrate Curator of the university's Natural History Museum. With a PhD from the University of Michigan, Jingchun's research program focuses on understanding drivers and processes of biodiversification. She is especially interested in the way symbiotic interactions affect distribution, ecology and evolution of invertebrates. Her lab adopts a combination of phylogenetic comparative methods, geometric morphometrics, molecular evolution and bioinformatics approaches to study diverse mollusks and their syimbionts, including photosymbiotic cockles and their algal partners, freshwater snails and